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Beautiful Writers:
A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts—With Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors
“Beautiful Writers is The Artist’s Way for a new generation…”
—Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Iscariot and The Line Between
“This is a REALLY good book that will help a LOT of people…”
—Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and The War of Art
“I stayed up all night reading Linda’s stories…”
—Allison K. Hill, CEO of American Bookseller’s Association
“Can’t put it down… I must put it down! I want to keep bingeing this addictive book…”
—Laura Belgray, author of Tough Titties (2023, Hachette), founder of Talking Shrimp, and co-creator of The Copy Cure
“Linda Sivertsen is someone everyone should know.”
—Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity, an Oprah’s Book Club selection
“… a funny, relatable reminder to everyone on how deeply rewarding it is to follow your passions, trust your gut, and create.”
—Brooke Baldwin, veteran journalist, and bestselling author of Huddle
Missed the preorder for Beautiful Writers, but want to get replay access to the call with Laura Belgray & me? Laura is an author, founder of Talking Shrimp, and co-creator of The Copy Cure. We’ll be doing a deep dive on Beautiful Emails: How to Write the Only Newsletter Anyone Wants to Read.
Laura hasn’t offered this training anywhere else. If she did, it would sell for $299 or more. But she doesn’t sell it, so this is your chance :). All you have to do is purchase 2 copies of Beautiful Writers (around $40) and email an image of your receipt to team@bookmama.com and my team will get you access to the party!
We did it.
You can too.
Beautiful Writers:
A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts—With Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors
“Beautiful Writers is The Artist’s Way for a new generation…”
—Tosca Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Iscariot and The Line Between
“This is a REALLY good book that will help a LOT of people…”
—Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and The War of Art
“Linda Sivertsen is someone everyone should know.”
—Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity, an Oprah’s Book Club selection
“I stayed up all night reading Linda’s stories…”
—Allison K. Hill, CEO of American Bookseller’s Association
“Can’t put it down… I must put it down! I want to keep bingeing this addictive book…”
—Laura Belgray, author of Tough Titties (2023, Hachette), founder of Talking Shrimp, and co-creator of The Copy Cure
“… a funny, relatable reminder to everyone on how deeply rewarding it is to follow your passions, trust your gut, and create.”
—Brooke Baldwin, veteran journalist, and bestselling author of Huddle
Missed the preorder for Beautiful Writers, but want to get replay access to the call with Laura Belgray & me? Laura is an author, founder of Talking Shrimp, and co-creator of The Copy Cure. We’ll be doing a deep dive on Beautiful Emails: How to Write the Only Newsletter Anyone Wants to Read.
All you have to do is purchase 2 copies of Beautiful Writers and email an image of your receipt to team@bookmama.com and my team will get you access to the party!
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Americas horses need our help. When horses and donkeys are not wanted, regardless of the shape or condition they are in, they are sold. If they are sold cheap enough they are loaded up onto semi trucks and trailers and transported over 20 hours to a Mexican slaughter plant and killed for their meat and biproducts. This is our ‘standard’ in America.
Furthermore, horses are treated like objects, no different than the dogs stuffed into crates and boiled alive at the meat markets over seas, traded and passed around for financial gain - AGAIN, regardless of health or condition.
You can drug a horse with an injured leg, drug a horse with a broken back, and sell it to the highest bidder or unsuspecting buyer, and it’s legal. No repercussions.
Race horses, rodeo horses, performance horses, ranch horses, carriage horses, kids horses, therapy horses, wild horses, pregnant horses - all are either shipped to their deaths or passed around until they are so sick and worn out they die.
HOW IS THIS LEGAL?!
Switch the scenario and imagine if this were dogs - there would be an uproar.
Today while MILLIONS watch the Kentucky Derby, I hope there is just enough awareness being spread today on social media that those cheering from the sidelines take a moment to recognize and acknowledge the plight of the horses and donkeys and the rescues and organizations fighting for standards and regulations to protect and do right by them.
I’m not here to bore you - I’m here to SHOW you through our social media feeds and platforms, so that YOU can make a decision on what your expectations are for THEM and the people that capitalize off of them for their financial gain.
You’re quite literally watching and spending money to watch horses run so that a small percentage of people can make MILLIONS. MEANWHILE, the people and organizations fighting for their standards of care and well being are begging for help financially to ensure that they are treated with dignity, respect and empathy.
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Love my girls! #beautifulwritersvirtualretreat 💜Repost… @k_ambrosia5 loved meeting with my Aussie mate @christine_denny_author every other week to workshop our writing! She sparks the ‘JOY” - which is appropriate given that she is, after all, THE JOYMAKER (check out her spunk, her skill, and her energy in this dance video - she is one of Australia’s best-known tap instructors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnlUlFg8Pr0). I hate dancing but somehow every time I’m on a call with her I find myself being all kinds of goofy - we bust out in dance moves, we sing little ditties “what to do, what to do” and we laugh! We also do our fair share of cursing.
I hadn’t realized how much I’ve needed other writers around me. When you aren’t a ‘known’ writer people tend to forget about this time-intensive, often tear-producing, hopefully transformative thing you are trying your best to birth into the world.
People seldom ask about how the book is going, or what chapter you’re on, or if you ever figured out how to reorganize that section that was giving you trouble - which is why it is SO important to find yourself a writing group where people not only ask these questions but genuinely care about your answers. Groups where people will spend 15 or 20 minutes helping you find that one right word or pointing out gaps in your narrative. @astrusienski @sherijeanbrla and AJ thank you for being some of those people for me.
@linda_sivertsen I will forever be grateful you helped me find Christine, Christine A. Messier I will be forever grateful you helped me find Linda, @yourcreativegroove I will be forever grateful you helped me find my incredible editor @hannar2e2 .
Today Christine gave me some tough love - “quit outsourcing your brilliance. It is actually annoying me.” LOL. This was in response to me constantly quoting and referencing other people whose work I love. Christine said, “I’m buying your book, not their bloody book” (or something to that effect). And she’s right - I don’t know why I’m not trusting my voice enough to carry the story, but I bloody will start now.
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This is so true. The gift of permission is so important! And BTW/ this is a brilliant book promo. With QR codes to boot!!!!
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Here is story, my ‘Unraveling.’
Thank you @VanityFair for being one hell of a partner on this journey.
As a privileged white woman, if this is my experience… I can’t imagine what’s happening to Black and brown women in the workplace and beyond — women who aren’t given anywhere